# Staff Production Engineer

**Company**: Canva
**Location**: Sydney
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Production Engineering team at Canva, where you're tasked with redefining how production reliability works at scale. You'll write software that changes how production behaves, working closely with product teams to minimise technical risk.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Own an engagement area, focusing on high-risk technical domains such as sharding core data stores, resource utilisation, and distributed systems challenges.

- Write production software, optimising for reliability outcomes at scale.

- Collaborate with fellow production engineers, mentoring and learning from each other.

- Prioritise customer experience, striving for fewer incidents, faster recovery, and lower severity.

- Contribute to platform work, identifying patterns that require shared capabilities.

- Work on compounding system layers, improving how other engineers build on top of systems.

**Requirements:**

- Experience with production at scale, particularly with large-scale distributed systems.

- Background in embedded delivery, having worked closely with product or feature teams.

- Proficiency in JVM or similar systems languages such as Java, Go, Rust, or C++.

- Practical experience with distributed systems, including sharding, replication, and failure modes.

- Ability to debug large codebases and navigate complex systems.

- Influence without authority, demonstrated by improving systems through expertise and trust.

**Technical Knowledge:**

- Networking depth, understanding the network stack and traffic patterns at scale.

- Linux internals, with kernel-level understanding for system behaviour analysis.

- Familiarity with distributed systems patterns, observability tooling, containerisation, and orchestration.

- Experience with performance analysis, cloud infrastructure, and incident response.

**Nice to Have:**

- Enterprise SaaS background, specifically in production engineering.

- JVM internals expertise, including tuning GC and profiling threads.

- Experience with multi-region or sharding, eBPF, or kernel instrumentation.

**What's in it for You:**

- Equity packages

- Inclusive parental leave policy

- Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance

- Flexible leave options

## Skills

### Required
- Production at scale
- Distributed systems
- JVM or systems languages
- Debugging large codebases
- Influence without authority
- Networking depth
- Linux internals
- Observability tooling
- Containerisation and orchestration
- Performance analysis
- Cloud infrastructure
- Incident response

### Nice to have
- Enterprise SaaS background
- JVM internals
- Multi-region or sharding experience
- eBPF or kernel instrumentation

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